Monument and alchemy

David Benarroch's work always refers to the process of creation. His sculptures are the result, record and witness of the time and gesture used in production. Each one preserves, highlights and eternalizes for the viewer the movement, force and time that the artist used to create it.

Benarroch works mainly with non-natural materials. As in other aspects, he seems to be fighting against the commandments of historical sculpture. We find only a few pieces of wood, but never, for example, stone, the traditionally noble material of classical sculpture. Metal, yes, especially that which is supplied by industrial use, and, above all, resin, fiberglass, latex or cement. In addition, this allows him to accentuate the interplay between what the spectator sees and what things are actually made of. There is an intended confusion between the hard and the soft, the light and the heavy, the fragile and the resistant.

For the same reason, it seems that he is always looking for the limit of equilibrium of each sculpture, as if they were at an uncomfortable point, about to fall or in danger of being knocked over by a brush or a gust of wind. In this way, he questions the most basic thing that a sculpture should do: remain firm in space.

David is a Sephardic Jew, born in Israel. He has Spanish nationality and has been living and working in Madrid for two years.